Stove construction



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A. MEADOWS STOVE CONSTRUCTION Filed July 15 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 7% fuleniom 'M flm Gumm Patented Sept. 25, I923.

ALBERT MEADOWS, OEDETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO DETROIT VAPOR STOVE COMPANY, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION OF MICHIGAN.

STOVE CONSTRUCTION.

Application filed July 15, 1922. Serial No. 575,348.

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT MEADOWS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stove Constructions, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to stove construe tion and more particularly to the structure which supports the burner box lining and the frame which supports the grates. This structure also serves to support the manifold that furnishes the. gas or vapor to the burners- It is the object of this construction to provide a structure in which the bolts and nuts on the stove top are entirely concealed so as to provide a clean cut appearance and to further give rounded corners at the joints between the grate-supporting frame and the side wall of the oven and the rear wall .of the stove. These features will more fully appear in the description following:

In the drawings;-

Fig. 1 is a fragmentary perspective of the stove showing in particular the grates and the grate-supporting frame and the adjoining manifold.

F ig. 2 is a section taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a section taken on the line 33 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a section taken on the line 44 35 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 is a section taken on the line 5--5 of Fig. 2, and including parts of the oven and broiler chamber.

Fig. 6 is a section taken on the line 6-6 W of Fig. 5.

The stove comprises an oven (1, a broiling chamber :22, a back wall 6, a shelf 0 and a grate-supporting frame d. The last mentioned member is a pressed steel frame, of

M channel section at front and one side, and curving up as shown at e to meet the side wall of the oven and the back wall 6. A jog f is made in each one of these walls so that the curving apron of the grate-support 5 ing frame can meet the side wall and back wall. preferably flush therewith. These members (side wall of oven and back wall) are preferably enameled so as to provide a sanitary, easilycleanable surface. Furthermore the back plate Z) and the side wall of the oven are joined on a curve of quite a large radius so as to eliminate a sharp corner here so that these walls may be easily wiped clean and there are no sharp corners to catch dirt and filth.

Referring to Fig. 5 is will be seen that the side wall of the oven at is joined to the side wall of the broiler chamber a: by stove bolts i, the heads of which are concealed under the curved apron e of the grate-supporting frame. Immediately below this joint the channel girder j is supported by the stove bolts and nuts 70. This is an inverted channel while the top of the girder has a channel m pressed into it. This forms a seat for the bolt heads n preventing their turning. At the same time it also centers the channelled hanger 0 by fitting into the channel portion of this hanger. This hanger is secured to this girder by the bolts 12 and the nuts y.

By using a long anchor (almost the length of the suspended portion of the hanger) a very rigid fastening is secured with the two bolts eliminating practically any leverage arising from the load. Furthermore the load of the manifold comes on the oven walls as well as the, top, while in most stoves the manifold is supported only on the stove top (the grate-supporting frame).

This hanger is a casting in two pieces, the cap piece fits over the top of the gas manifold 1" while the main body of the hanger, at its forward end, engages under the manifold. The underside of the cap piece is tapped and drilled at s to take the screw 1. which passes through the main body piece from the underside, sufficiently removed from the front of the hanger so as to be completely concealed. By this form of fastening the cap piece and the body piece together the fastening device is completely concealed. Ordinarily this hanger is bolted to the front apron or shoulder of the grate carrying frame by a bolt, the head of which is large and is exposed immediately at the front of the stove, where it is unsightly.

This girder construction not only eliminates this objectionable bolt but it provides a support for the grate-supporting frame, which completely conceals the fastening de vices that support this frame upon the oven wall or broiler chamber wall. Furthermore it permits the use of the apron with the sweeping curve that eliminates any sharp joint between the grate-supporting frame and the side oven wall and the rear stove wall. Furthermore, the burner box lining u is held (compare Figs. 5 and 6) spaced both from theside walls and the rear stove wall. This holds the drip pan 1: somewhat spaced from the oven wall and the right side wall of the stove so that one in wiping the burner pit may reach up the side and rear of the stove at the side of the pan without removing the same and keep the burner pit clean and sanitary.

A channel girder h, similar to the side girders j, is used at the rear as shown in Fig. 6 to space the burner box lining u from the rear wall and support the same and the gratesupporting frame. The burner box lining is preferably glass enameled.

hat I claim is:

1. In a stove construction, the combination of a stove wall, a girder supported by the same. a gratesupporting frame supported by said girder, a gas manifold and a hanger for supporting said gas manifold on the girder.

2. In a stove construction, the combination of a stove wall, a girder supported by the wall, a gas distributing manifold and a hanger for suspending the gas distributing manifold from the girder.

3. In a stove construction, the combination of a stove wall, a girder supported therefrom and provided with a sub-channel at the top, a, gas distributing manifold, a channeled hanger adapted to engage the channel in the girder to locate the same thereon, said hanger supporting the said manifold, and means for removably securing the hanger on the girder.

4. In a stove construction, the combination of a stove wall, a channel girder supported by the same, a gas-distributing manifold, a hanger supported by the channel girder for suspending the manifold, and a grate-supporting frame supported at one side by said girder.

5. In a stove construction, the combination of a stove Wall, a channel girder having one of its side walls secured to the same, a gas-distributing manifold, a hanger supported by the web of the girder for suspending the manifold, and a' grate supporting frame supported by the other side wall of the channel.

6. In a. stove construction, the combination of an oven and broiler chamber provided with side walls, a channel girder one side wall of which is secured to the same, and-a rate-supporting frame secured near its lower edge in spaced relation to the said chamber side walls by the other side wall of said channel girder.

7. In' a stove construction, the combination of a stove wall, a girder supported at one side by the same and a burner box lining supported in spaced relation with respect to said wall by said girder.

8. In a stove construction, the combinaone side by the same, and'a burner box lining and grate-supporting frame supported removably by the opposite side of the girder.

10. In a stove construction, the combination of a stove wall, a channel girder supported at one side by the same, a burner box lining and grate-supporting frame removably supported by the other side of the channel.

11. In a stove construction, the combination of a stove wall, a girder supported at one side by the same, and a grate-supporting frame provided at its .top and side with a curved apron merging into the wall and secured at its bottom to the other side of the girder.

12. In a stove construction, the combination of a stove wall, provided with a jog, a girder supported at one side by said wall, a grate-supporting frame supported by the other side of the girder and having an apron above the top of the girder describing a curve in cross section and merging into the said wall at the jog.

13. In a stove construction, the combination of a wall, a girder supported at one side thereby, and a grate-supporting frame supported by the other side of the girder and having an apron above the girder having a curving cross section merginginto the side wall of the stove.

14. In a stove construction, the combination of an oven chamber provided with a side wall, a broiler chamber provided with a side wall, a girder supported at one side by the side wall of the broiler chamber, means for securing the two side walls of the oven chamber and the broiler chamber together, and a grate-supporting frame having its bottom secured to the other side of the girder and having a curved apron portion merging into the oven side wall and concealing the joint between the oven side wall and the broiler side wall.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

' ALBERT MEADOWS. 

